Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Citizen Science: From Data to Action
University of Dundee and GROW Observatory
This online course covered different sources of citizen science generated datasets in the GROW Observatory including soil sensor data. Topics covered included: analysis of results submitted by GROW citizen scientists, identifying patterns in datasets as well as reflecting on the role and potential of art in communicating complex scientific concepts and data as well as creating positive change through participatory governance methods, from the local to the global.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Mel Woods
Reader in Creative Intelligence,
University of Dundee
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore methods for analysing data from growing sites collected by growers like you.
- Engage in activities using citizen generated data to identify patterns and errors in soil and food growing data.
- Describe key research principles and their importance in designing and analysing robust citizen science experiments for your growing site and your community.
- Design strategies for moving from insights from datasets to positive change making.
- Identify the level of change citizen science experiments can generate in local, national and international spheres, including participatory governance channels.
- Explore the role and potential of art in communicating complex scientific concepts and data.
Syllabus
- Overview of different sources of citizen science generated datasets in the GROW Observatory including soil sensor data.
- Analysis of results submitted by GROW participants over the growing season to investigate the effectiveness of a polyculture vs monoculture experiment.
- Identifying trends and patterns in datasets as well as reflecting on the different insights you can gain from individual and collective experiment results.
- The role and potential of art in communicating complex scientific concepts and data.
- Creating positive change through citizen science: from the local to the global.
Issued on 25th November 2018
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